David Franco Mendes (13 August 1713 – 10 October 1792) was a Jewish Hebrew-language poet from Amsterdam. A businessman, he devoted his leisure hours to the study of the Talmud, in which he became very proficient. He knew several languages and was especially well versed in Hebrew. For six months preceding his death he was honorary secretary of the Spanish-Portuguese community at Amsterdam. He was part of the Franco family, a Jewish family which derived its name from a place near Navarre, Spain.